Nazism 2

Nazism and World War II
The National Socialist German Workers’ Party almost died one
morning in 1919. It numbered only a few dozen grumblers’ it had no
organisation and no political ideas. But many among the middle class
admired the Nazis’ muscular opposition to the Social Democrats. And
the Nazis themes of patriotism and militarism drew highly emotional
responses from people who could not forget Germany’s pre-war imperial
grandeur.
In the national elections of September 1930,

to Orleans on the Loire and then due east toward the
Seine south of Paris. By August 23 the Seine was reached southeast and
northwest of the capital, and two days later the great city, the glory
of France, was liberated after four years of German occupation when
General Jacques Leclerc’s French 2nd Armored Division and the U.S. 4th
Infantry Division broke into it and found that French resistance units
were largely in control.